Share of Cost, Chronic Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease – Medication And Surgery Equally Effective
Thursday, Jan. 5th 2012 6:40 AM
Laparoscopic antireflux surgery or taking proton pump inhibitor esomeprazole for chronic GERD (chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease) were both found to result in similar rates of disease remission of five years, researchers from Nantes University, France, reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association).
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